Solving your storage issues, how to use tools to restore your data and x-ways how to effectively destroy your filesystem

Milan Brož - Disk encryption (not only) in Linux

Kernel

A low level insight into Full Disk Encryption (FDE). Why encryption mode matters or why using encryption on hardware level is not always the best option. Some examples and short description of software level FDE implementations and features in various operating systems (with main focus to Linux dmcrypt/LUKS but also Truecrypt, loop-AES and Bitlocker).

Big Data, Unstructured Data, Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up, Virtualization, Solid State Storage. What is the future of SAN, NAS, DAS? What role will Linux play in the new environment?

Lukas Czerner - Btrfs - Design, Implementation and the Current Status

Kernel

Historically Linux has always had quite decent pool of local file systems in the tree. However only one of them has been usually considered as a "General purpose local file system". Extended file system was the one. Now it is about to change as btrfs "B-tree file system" joined the crew. In this talk I would like to give a brief overview on the design and implementation of btrfs and highlight some if its strong and weak qualities. We might even try to peek into the future to see what the future of btrfs might look like, what might be its main use case, if it will leave all other file system behind, or silently die after the hype fade away. Finally, I will introduce you to the current state of development. I'll try to summarize what has been done so far and what you can use today. And of course, highlight features which are either ready or are about to be ready for users to appreciate. Some examples of btrfs usage might follow

Drools Planner optimizes planning problems. Better planning algorithms can help save the environment, reduce costs and improve service quality. All organisations have planning problems, such as employee rostering, task scheduling, vehicle routing or bin packing. Yet, they hardly optimize those problems. Why? Because those problems are “NP-complete”: computationally very difficult and humanly impossible to optimize.

Jonathan Blandford - Spice + Gnome 3.x

Desktop

Matthias Clasen - GTK+ 3 and beyond

Desktop

whats new in GTK+ 3 compared to GTK+ 2, and what is brewing for GTK+ 4

Simon Schampijer - Sugar: using the GNOME platform to build a learning platform

Desktop

Adapt to new technologies like GTK3 and gobject-introspection.

Shaun McCance - The GNOME Help System

Desktop

Diving Deeper: Tapping the Potential of the GNOME Help System Mallard and the GNOME help system solve real problems faced by open source projects in innovative ways, and provide the groundwork for new ideas. See how Mallard really works and learn how you can take it even further.

Jaroslav Reznik - Qt 5 GUI hereafter

Desktop

Introduction to Qt Quick and QML

Hans de Goede - SPICE

Desktop

SPICE "Open remote computing" introduction and presentation of the new USB redirection support

This talk will show how to support minimal directory layouts, which can be extended up to a fully backwards compatible Linux distribution layout. It provides a cleaner definition of shareability and read-only settings, which gives the options to better support stateless systems, boot and virtualization.some lose definition, but we want to be much more specific. We will show the most minimal hierarchy and the hierarchy of a backwards compatible, typical Fedora installation, and explain the purpose of every directory

Phil Knirsch - The future of yum and rpm

Core

What will change in upcoming versions of yum and rpm, new dependency resolvers, new ways of downloading packages, faster transactions etc

Michal Fojtík, Fracesco Vollero - Cloud in the wild

Cloud

Examples about how to use Deltacloud API to speak with many different clouds.

What is Portlet Bridge? How does it work? Do I need be a portlet developer to benefit from portals? I like RichFaces and Seam, can I use them in portals? How can I migrate my awesome JSF application to a portal? (~2 hrs)

Tomeu Vizoso - GTK+ 3 development in Python

Lab

Building a Python application using GObject Introspection.

Tomas Radej & Stano Ochotnicky - Fedora Package Review

Lab

We'll go through process of adding new package into Fedora with fedora-review tool. Depending on audience we could also show how to create an extension/plugin for specific guidelines.

Lodging

Avanti has given us a special rate - CZK 1337 (€52) inc. VAT for a double-bed room with breakfast and parking lot. If you want to use this rate, please contact Jiri Eischmann (eischmann@redhat.com) and make a binding booking by January 12th. If you're going to attend GTK+ and GNOME Docs hackfests, KDE SIG FAD, or oVirt meetup, you don't have to book your room this way.

Hotel Vista (formerly known as hotel Imos) - cheaper option, apx 20minutes by public transport far from University

Travel

to Brno, Czech Republic

By Plane

Brno is located within two hours by car from three European capitals (Prague, Vienna, and Bratislava), but you can fly directly to Brno as well:

Vienna (VIE, 18 mil.) - 150 km from Brno, about 70 airlines serve flights to many destinations all over the world. Student Agency buses go from the airport to Brno every other hour (2.5 hours, CZK 310/€ 13). Flight pricing examples (roundtrips 2 months in advance, for the summer 2011):

New York (JFK) – (via Moscow with Aeroflot) € 843,

London (LHR) – (direct flight with Austrian Airlines) € 126,

Mandrid (MAD) – (direct flight with Air Berlin) € 144.

Bratislava (BTS, 2 mil.) - 130 km from Brno, 7 airlines serve regular flights to over 30 destinations, there is a hub of Ryanair (cheap flights to many European cities). There is no direct connection between the airport and Brno. Trains (€ 7, 1.5 hour) and buses (€ 9, 2 hours) go to Brno from the city center every hour.

By Train

Brno has good train connections to several European cities and train is the fastest and most convenient means of transportation between big cities in the region. All intercity trains arrive and depart at the main stations which is a hub of public transport in the city. Train timetables

By Bus

Brno is part of the European bus network and all connections and their prices are similar to trains. Most buses arrive to Brno-Zvonarka, only Student Agency buses arrive to Grand Hotel which is on the same street as Main Train Station. Student Agency (http://www.studentagency.eu/) and Eurolines (http://www.eurolines.com/) provide buses to many European cities. Bus timetables

By Car

Brno is well-connected to other cities by highways. You can get easily to neighboring countries by car. Travel time examples:

Prague – 210 km, 2 hours,

Bratislava – 130 km, 1.3 hour,

Vienna – 143 km, 1.8 hour,

Budapest – 326 km, 3 hours,

Munich – 587 km, 5.3 hours,

Berlin – 555 km, 5.2 hours.

Parking lots are available right in the university campus where the conference would take place.

In Brno

From Main railway station take tram #1 (towards Řečkovice). Get off the tram on 5th stop - Hrnčířská (after apx 10minutes). Take the street on the left - Hrnčířská - up and after apx 300 meters the building on your right hand is the University.

From Main bus station (Zvonařka) take bus number 60, get off on second stop - Nové Sady (apx 2minutes). Take tram #1 towards Řečkovice. After two stops you are on the Main railway station, follow instructions above.

From Česká street (City center) take trolley 32 (towards Královo pole) for 4 stops and get off on stop Botanická right in front of the main University building.

Check the map with important places including the main railway/bus stations, hotels and the conference place at http://map.devconf.cz